Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...what has too often been the ill-judged coaching of some undergraduate, while a few substitutes wandered aimlessly along the side-lines. This year four elevens are working daily. Three competent graduate coaches are fast bringing them into such shape that the first eleven promises to make a lively fight for the class championship. If this system is adhered to every year there can be no doubt that indirectly the 'varsity team will be benefited...
...party will carry on the fight for its principles: Cleveland's letter to Catchings in Boston Herald, Aug. 28, 1894; Wilson's speech in Boston Herald...
...greater than for some years, and the prospects are that the contest will be extremely close and interesting. As has often been the case three colleges are claiming consideration as possible winners of the cup, but this year it is Pennsylvania and not Princeton that will make the fight with Harvard and Yale. Experience has shown that predictions concerning the outcome of the individual events cannot be made with any degree of assurance. However, brief mention of the men whose public performances have been worthy of especial notice may be of interest...
...bicycle, Coates and Osgood of Pennsylvania are men who will fight with Glenny of Yale for first place. If the race is fast Elliot may do better than at New Haven. In the field events there are beside the men who contested in the Harvard-Yale games, Leslie of Pennsylvania and Burke and Earle of Columbia in the high jump, Ramsdell of Pennsylvania in the broad jump, Towne of Williams and Bucholtz in the polevault, Knipe of Pennsylvania in the shot and Patterson of Cornell and Clark of Swarthmore in the hammer...
...that there is danger lest these victories make the nines worse rather than better fitted for the harder games which are to come. To believe, because some victories have been won, that others will come as a matter of course is a provoking foolishness against which every team must fight. A victory ought to stimulate, not to demoralize. There is more encouragement now for hard, unremitting work, and this hard, unremitting work is the one thing to be done. The best time to be elated is when the season is over...